Girls' Life Head-to-Toe Guide To You by Karen Bokram

This is part of the reason that the great abyss between young adult reading and adult literature is slowly but surely closing. Kids are exposed to sex, drugs, and independent situations much younger and far more often. Most homes find both parents working-if there are even two parents in the home. Standardized testing won’t show an enormous upswing on the learning curve, but kids are exposed to many more facets of the adult world today than they were in past decades. 'What might once have been thought appropriate for a fourteen-year-old is now appropriate for a considerably younger reader.”ĭoes this mean kids are smarter today than they used to be? Yes and no.

The classics tend to be the only exception to this rule because they frequently appear on school’s required reading lists. What once passed as Young Adult fiction in the 1970’s would engage a readership of 8-10 year olds today. Children have aged emotionally and socially at a much higher rate during the past couple of decades. What contributed to the demise of these tales? Kids got older. And Dick and Jane are nowhere to be found except for antique book stores and Grandma’s attic. The Bobbsey Twins are completely irrelevant. If you’re familiar with children and teenagers of today, you’ll know that Nancy Drew’s readership has gone down in age. Nancy Drew was once considered reading for high school aged girls. These are prime examples of what children’s literature used to entail.

Girls' Life Head-to-Toe Guide To You by Karen Bokram